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Accessibility considerations for digital content aren’t limited to navigation, reading and interaction. Users also need to be able to archive, comment, redact, extract, and more.

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The 2nd edition now totals 18 pages includes 5 new sheets focusing on logical structure, tagged PDF, and the Arlington PDF Model. Additionally, Cheat Sheets in the 2nd edition conform to PDF/UA-1.

The future of e-invoicing.

In 2025 Europe will require ebooks to be accessible and include detailed accessibility metadata while Germany will require e-invoicing. | ACM in San Jose | GWG webinars on PDF/X-4 |Standards Day(s) are coming! | The Power of PDF Posters | The PDFacademicBot for October 2024

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This PDF-UX article offers an overview of bookmarks and suggests considerations and general best practices for every PDF author, and some thoughts for PDF viewer developers as well.

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File type for downloadable forms, in 3 letters | Mobile devices are pain-points for forms | But, Android support for PDF is improving | veraPDF Arlington Checker released | PDF Week Prague 2024 | iPRES 2024 Great Preservation Bake-off | New PDF Association liaison on HDR with ISO TC 42 Photography | GWG to publish more educational materials | PDFacademicBot for September 2024.

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PDF Association members – especially those working on PDF’s imaging model – can now access TC 42 WG 23 resources directly from pdfa.org.

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Devs must VALIDATE before applying ISO-standardized subset metadata to PDFs! | PDF Week Prague accommodations | OPF patches JHOVE | ISO TC 130 WG 2 focuses on print-related standards | The Ghent Workgroup offers seminars | The PDFacademicBot for August 2024!

Covers of 3 ISO standards in the PDF/UA bundle.

Starting today, PDF users everywhere can leverage ISO-standardized accessibility requirements for content in PDF.

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Wired likes PDF/A, Google and Apple do PDF creation from phone cameras, EA-PDF is already in the wild, the latest Samsung folding phone rocks PDF, Some TERRIBLE advice for redaction… and of course, the PDFacademicBot for July, 2024!

Covers of 5 ISO standards in the ISO 32000-2 bundle, updated July 2024.

The latest PDF 2.0 Errata Collection 2 is a complete update and replacement for the previous no-cost sponsored edition of ISO 32000-2:2020 (PDF 2.0).

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